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Descriptive Notes on Papuan Plants, 
Mvrtelj.a Beccauii. 
Young- branclilets slightly downy ; leaves ohlong-elliptical, glabrous 
except their very obtuse base, on exceedingly short stalks, slightly 
recurved at the margin ; flower-stalklets several times shorter than the 
leaves; bracteoles seated at the base of the calyx, linear; tube of the 
calyx shorter than the bracteoles and hardly as long as the lobes ; petals 
scarcely longer than the calyx-lobes ; ovary with few ovules in each cell. 
Humboldt’s Bay; Dr. Beccaid. 
Shrub with the habit of a Bteckea or a Thryptomene. Branchlets 
numerous and spreading. Leaves chartaceous, hardly 3 lines long, 
shining above, paler beneath, copiously dotted, spreading. Pedicels 
about 1 line long. Bracteoles measuring* 1^-2 lines in length. Lobes 
of the calyx semilanceolar, 1 line long or little longer, ciliolate ; tube 
comparatively broad, quite smooth, turgid. Petals subtle-downy, oval. 
Filaments capillary; anthers roxindisb, with a conspicuous connective. 
Style about 1 line long. Stigma hardly dilated. Young fruit semiovate. 
IVIyKTELLA IIIKSU'l’ULA. 
Leaves oval-lanceolar, at the lower page as well as the branchlets and 
calyces densely hairy, their surhice beset with scattered hair ; petals 
nearly twice as long as the calyx-lobes, ovules several or many in each 
cell. 
On Mount Arfak, at a height of 5-6,000 feet ; Dr. Beccari. 
A shi’uh with the habit of a small Myrtus. Indument of branchlets 
and underside of the leaves almost brownisL-tomentose. Leaves 
inch long, thinly coriaceous. Flowers described from a sketch of Dr. 
Beccari, who found the anthers cordate and the ovules adscendent and 
anatropal. 
Dr. Beccari’s collection contains another remarkable myrtaceous plant, 
with the liabit of a Psidium, probably referable to the genus Eugenia, 
hut of which the fruit remains unknown. The only flower available for 
examination showed 8 petals, being double the number of the calyx- 
lobes. Unless this augmentation arose from monstrous growth, we 
obtain a species abnormal not only in the g’enus Eugenia (and to which 
the name E. pleiopetala might be given), hut also in the whole order of 
Myrtacere, except Gustavia. The leaves are oval and 2-3 inches long ; the 
flowers are solitary, axillary and placed on very short peduncles ; the 
